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Author of The Things of Heaven and Earth

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    Gideon’s Sorrow – Chapters 1 and 2

    Gideon’s Sorrow Chapter 1 The Bargain Struck 1830: Abraham Teague thought himself a damned fool, the worse fool, too, because his foolishness had gotten him killed. Presently, he lay fearful and feverish beside a trickling stream. He wanted very much

    Michael Scott Hopkins March 18, 2022March 18, 2022 Uncategorized No Comments Read more

    The Dead Mad Monk’s Legal Disclaimer

    The Dead Mad Monk’s Legal Disclaimer You see it in the front matter of every fiction novel you read, something to the effect of, “This is a work of fiction and the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to

    Michael Scott Hopkins November 4, 2021November 4, 2021 Uncategorized No Comments Read more

    Learning to Know: A Military Experience

    Learning to Know: A Military Experience For fiction writers, there is one constant: They have to make things up. This runs completely counter to the earliest advice most aspiring writers first hear in high school, which is, of course, “Write

    Michael Scott Hopkins July 11, 2021July 12, 2021 Uncategorized 1 Comment Read more

    The Asphalt Muse

    The Asphalt Muse I was a ridiculously incurious teenager – so much so that I hadn’t learned or even heard about the Muses from Greek mythology until Olivia Newton-John showed up on the silver screen playing one in the movie

    Michael Scott Hopkins May 15, 2021May 16, 2021 Uncategorized No Comments Read more

    Sequel to “The Things in Heaven and Earth”

    The countdown for release of “The Things in Heaven and Earth” is getting shorter by the day. July 8 is less than four months away, but I already find myself missing the characters and writing about them. It’s a bit

    Michael Scott Hopkins March 14, 2021March 14, 2021 Uncategorized No Comments Read more

    A Review of The Gopher King, by Gojan Nikolich (Five Stars)

    A Review of The Gopher King, by Gojan Nikolich (Five Stars) The full title of Gojan Nikolich’s recently released first-person narrative, told from the point of view of a traumatized Vietnam war veteran, is The Gopher King: A Dark Comedy.

    Michael Scott Hopkins February 20, 2021 Uncategorized No Comments Read more

    Rereading The Grapes of Wrath, Part 5

    My grandmother, Helen Lucile Gross (then Helen Beckwith, then Dicks, then Beckwith again) was a tough lady. But that toughness came from an immutable sense of right and wrong. Her ethics weren’t the of the sort studied in college philosophy

    Michael Scott Hopkins January 30, 2021January 30, 2021 Uncategorized No Comments Read more

    Rereading The Grapes of Wrath, Part 4

    In The Grapes of Wrath, the character Tom Joad talks about his mother’s fierceness, telling how she had once beaten a peddler who’d gotten smart with her with a live chicken, until all she had left in her hand were

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    Rereading The Grapes of Wrath, Part 3

    My grandmother was a tough lady. In all the years I knew her, I only saw her cry twice. The first time was when my brother was murdered. The second was when she told me what it was like to

    Michael Scott Hopkins December 28, 2020January 30, 2021 Uncategorized 1 Comment Read more

    Rereading The Grapes of Wrath, Part 2

    When I first read The Grapes of Wrath, I was sixteen or seventeen, and I only came to it because the book was assigned reading in a literature class I was taking in school. At the time, my only knowledge

    Michael Scott Hopkins December 25, 2020January 30, 2021 Uncategorized 1 Comment Read more
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